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Reputation: 7422

nginx permission denied error on get

For some reason i'm getting permission denied error while reading the file using nginx and in rhel6, here is my output of the log file 

  tail -f /var/log/nginx/ph-repo.error.log

and the logs says 

 "/opt/nginx/nginx-1.8.0-1.el6.ngx.x86_64.rpm" failed (13: Permission denied), client: 10.20.5.236, server: my-repo, request: "GET /nginx/nginx-1.8.0-1.el6.ngx.x86_64.rpm HTTP/1.1", host: "my-repo"

When i check the permission of the file it's 777

[root@my-repo]# ls -l nginx/nginx-1.8.0-1.el6.ngx.x86_64.rpm
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 360628 Oct 23 02:59 nginx/nginx-1.8.0-1.el6.ngx.x86_64.rpm

The nginx process is also running as root 

[root@ph-repo]# ps -elf | grep nginx
1 S root      1527     1  0  80   0 - 11195 rt_sig 09:48 ?        00:00:00 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -c /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
5 S root      1528  1527  0  80   0 - 11378 ep_pol 09:48 ?        00:00:00 nginx: worker process
0 S root      3062  2258  0  80   0 - 25827 pipe_w 10:52 pts/1    00:00:00 grep nginx

The ACL

[root@my-repo]# getfacl nginx
# file: nginx
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rwx
group::rwx
other::rwx

[root@my-repo]# getfacl nginx/nginx-1.8.0-1.el6.ngx.x86_64.rpm
# file: nginx/nginx-1.8.0-1.el6.ngx.x86_64.rpm
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rwx
group::rwx
other::rwx

I'm not sure what's wrong is happening here can some one help me on this please

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2318

Answers (2)

Prado
Prado

Reputation: 582

I had exactly the same situation. Nginx just was listing directories, but no files, (and it is also a yum repository, like your setup).

the "(13: permission denied)" error was because of SELINUX.

Disabling SELINUX and rebooting the Linux, solved the problem.

to disable selinux, edit /etc/selinux/config inside the file, change option to: SELINUX=disabled

requires rebooting the Linux after changing it.

This will solve this, and any similar, Permission Denied error on nginx.

Upvotes: 0

Deep Singh Baweja
Deep Singh Baweja

Reputation: 418

Your problem is mostly the owner of the file,

su
cd /var/www
sudo chown www-data:www-data -R *

this is put the file under the same user as that of nginx/apache, should resolve your issue

Upvotes: 1

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